Tagged: British Columbia Court of Appeal

A court ruling at the centre of British Columbia's protracted teachers' strike, which has delayed the school year for half a million students, robs the government of its ability to set education policy, the province argues in documents related to an upcoming appeal.

Canadians have witnessed loved ones suffer “horrible” deaths but the public is divided over whether the federal ban outlawing euthanasia should be overturned, according to a new report from the nation’s largest doctors’ group.

Tougher parole-eligibility rules introduced by the Conservative government a few years ago — and applied retroactively — violated offenders' Charter rights not to be punished twice, the country’s highest court has ruled.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear on Friday the dramatic case of a B.C. father who, for religious reasons, tried to circumcise his four-year-old son on his kitchen floor with a carpet blade and a blood coagulant meant for horses.